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WAR blows.
I remember SC this year after the Cards signed Beltran trying to spin how they mightnot miss Pujols since Beltran and Pujols had similar WAR's last season.
WAR IMO is built on subjective metrics that ignore massive amounts of context.
I guess use it as a tool or whatever but saying it's the "best" way to evaluate players is idotic.
It drives me insane when I see people evaluating offseasons by trying to add up the WAR's of the players they lost and gained to see how they will do compared to last season.
I guess WAR is "useful" but rather than having all of it rolled into one I'd rather build a better picture off each individual stat or metric. WAR tried to tie them all together and relies WAY to heavily at times on God awful fielding metrics.Comment
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WAR blows.
I remember SC this year after the Cards signed Beltran trying to spin how they mightnot miss Pujols since Beltran and Pujols had similar WAR's last season.
WAR IMO is built on subjective metrics that ignore massive amounts of context.
I guess use it as a tool or whatever but saying it's the "best" way to evaluate players is idotic.
It drives me insane when I see people evaluating offseasons by trying to add up the WAR's of the players they lost and gained to see how they will do compared to last season.
I guess WAR is "useful" but rather than having all of it rolled into one I'd rather build a better picture off each individual stat or metric. WAR tried to tie them all together and relies WAY to heavily at times on God awful fielding metrics.Comment
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The Cubs are as popular as they are because of the losing. I think the franchise winning a championship would actually have a negative overall affect on the team.Comment
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Listening to the Baseball Today podcast, an emailer asked, "what pitcher has the best chance of striking out 27 in a game?"
Mark Simon's response, "Well, I asked our intern Rachel and she said, "maybe Jamie Moyer." I think that would be so cool!"
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